Hi the game in question. It is game no.83a in Aitken's Chess Scorebook which is at the Edinburgh Chess Club. This begs the question of whether the games of Aitken's scorebook have been entered into a database. If not, I would happily volunteer my services; as, perhaps, would other members of the fo...

When I "designed" the scoresheets for Hampstead I dropped the diagram as nobody I knew seemed to use them (except players in the London League). The field for the Opening also seemed like a waste of space so I dropped that too! You need lots of space to write moves though... to encourage legibility....

After about 27 years (!) we are moving our monthly tournament to a new venue from October 2017 (reason: old venue has been leased to a nursery). Does this make Golders Green the longest running chess event at the same venue in the UK? Our new venue is St Luke’s Church in Kidderpore Avenue, London NW...

Must listen to Perpetual Chess Podcast this month https://www.perpetualchesspod.com/ Hello everyone, GM Danny Gormally has got to be the most brutally honest Grandmaster in the world. He talked candidly about the challenges of life as a chess pro and his attempts to limit his alcohol consumption dur...

still on youtube search for pawn sacrifice full movie It is like pulling teeth to find the release dates in the small arthouse-type cinemas that are showing this film. Quite a few showings in Cardiff in the first week of September, in the 'Chapter' multi-artform cultural space: https://www.chapter.o...

No PGN, no. The tournament was, for whatever reason, not using duplicate scoresheets. That could have invalidated any title norms obtained. Congratulations on a great result, Jack, but in the circumstances it is perhaps just as well that it wasn't a GM norm. Where in the title regulations does it s...

Not strictly - you could play in a FIDE rated blitz, where there are currently no membership requirements. If only that were true. Chess Scotland requested the allocation of a FIDE Identification Number to an Englishman resident in Scotland but were refused because he was not a member of the ECF. C...